Legal Question in Intellectual Property in New York

Your best bet is to hire a patent attorney or agent to handle the patent search and process for you. Your patent attorney or agent has gone through a rigorous testing and screening process from the US Patent & Trademark Office; s/he is well aware that "stealing" a client's idea gets him/her banned from engaging in patent practice before the Office; no invention is worth your patent lawyer's or agent's career.

Many inventors want to "save money" by doing the search themselves. This is fine, and at my office we do accept such searches; there are lots of search strategies out there (visit www.uspto.gov), but be aware that you may miss something. Your patent attorney has access to materials and search materials that are not generally known. No patent attorney worth their salt, including me, will stand behind a search done by a client.

Give my office a call if you wish to discuss the patent process and why it is that I don't go into business with clients or steal clients' ideas. 518-371-4599.

Nancy Delain

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